Make good

Near-synonym: come good

America does vaguely feel a man making good as something analogous to a man being good or a man doing good.

Some of the Cubans who come to this country hoping to make good may be in for a shock. Would those 1,400 Cuban exiles already locked up have left Cuba — where jobs, education and health care are available to all, and where no laws against homosexuality exist — had they known they would end up in U.S. federal prisons, isolated from other prisoners and without benefit of trial?

The moment DJay becomes a rapper, the moment he becomes an artist, is linked to his own understanding of what hip hop was about when Skinny Black, his idol, a local homeboy who made good as a rapper, was “blowing up."

He [Eisenhower] was their own, the boy who made good.

As she told Playboy in 1958, “I realized some time ago that as long as there were men in this world, I’d make good.”

He made good his threat and made good his escape by jumping from a second-story window.

He made good on his threat to jump from a second-story window.

The Bank of the Commonwealth suspension resulted from overcertifying the checks of its former president, Edward Haight, to the amount of $225,000, of which Mr. Haight could only make good $60,000.

After all the players who determine to go in have made good the bet of the player who opened the Jack Pot, and the hands have been filled […]